slavery

This one isn't as bad as the guy in Austria, but it's still troubling.

A women was sentenced to 7 years in jail because she forced a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years in her South Florida home. The girl had to work 7 days a week, 15 hours a day at a minimum, taking care of the woman, her elderly mother, and her husband, who got 18 months of probation because he left his wife back in 2001, but still knew about the girl's enslavement and didn't do anything about it.

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Things must be extremely bad if China admits it...

China will investigate a slave labor scandal in one of its poorist areas - where poverty and unbridled growth have made extreme hardship a normal occurence for locals.

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Today we are living in an extremely advanced world, where man is breaking many old barriers. In present world we cannot allow superstition to over take us. However one the other hand marriage of super star Abhishek Bachan and Aishwarya Rai is seemed to full of many superstitions. Few months back we all saw Aihwarya Rai marrying a Pipal tree and at that time Bachan Family also visited many temples and performed many yagnas to avoid the Mangalic dosa of Aishwarya Rai.

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No, I haven’t seen the movie An Inconvenient Truth. The one about global warming starring Al Gore, in case you’ve been spending all your time lately reading “Flavor Flav and Hoopz Don’t Last". Why haven’t I seen it? ‘Cause I’m a marine biologist, working in an oceanography laboratory. Check the sidebar. We do this for a living. Greenhouse Gas Effects R Us. We could have told you all this years ago. Lord knows we tried. Hell, I even tried here, on this blog. That entry got fewer hits in nine months than Flavor Flav gets in a day. The NOAA guys have tried. They got muzzled for it. Remember?

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When it comes to being generous to wealthy Americans, no one can compete with our elected officials. Congress just passed another $70,000,000,000.00 tax cut for the top group of our populace. This, on top of a 10 year, $1,000,000,000,000.00 cut last year. How much more can Americans be expected to give to the owners of all or near all the total assets of our country. If the top 1% own 40% of all assets and the top 2% own 90% of all assets, is there really anything more we can give them to make them happy? In order for them to gain 10% on their ownership, we will have to give up all ownership completely. So, the richest Americans would own 99.9999995% of all goods, services, and property of any value and the rest of us the remainder of .0000005%. Wouldn’t they want more? Say, the total expected earnings of our descendants for several generations, a system of total slavery for hundreds of years, isn’t that what they call the New World Order.

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